Fancy a new game?  Let's see if this one will fly.

The purpose is to use a specified word in a sentence, in a way that is both accurate and (hopefully) witty.  The word for the next game will be specified by the person who comes up with a sentence incorporating the last word. 

I'll start the ball rolling with

ABSENTEE

Remember, the idea is not to define the word but to demonstrate its use.  And (hopefully) give us a chuckle.

Good luck.

Tea companies find that the absentee ingredient, absinthe, makes their tea a bit more drinkable and might even start to put Absentee Absinthe Free Tea on the menu.



Like that?

FORMALDEHYDE

Taking your work home with you can be a good thing, but Mr McBlemish was an undertaker and his Morris Minor was hardly big enough for the jars of formaldehyde let alone the corpses - he referred to them as "clients" - whose feet stuck out of the back window.

VERSATILE

Edward Aloysius Poe, an aspiring (yet unsuccessful) entertainer, would created horrifying poetry by using red paint on a white sheet, and then wrapping the versatile cloth around him as a cape, taking his poetry to the people as spectacle art.


SPECTACLE

I have seen many a frightful spectacle in my time, but never a one to match those perched on my mother's nose.

INTERIOR

An interior decorator is a person with a long handled paintbrush, and absolutely no appreciation of other people's personal space.

CULPABLE

A knife in the back is almost always a culpable homicide, since they rarely go off when you're cleaning them.

AGGRIEVED 

When PC Newbie arrived to deal with his first 'Domestic' he asked "Who is the aggrieved party?, and was answered "We both are.  Piss off and mind your own business."

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There's an old Plymouth legend about a couple on a notorious housing estate.  They would stage dramatic and drawn out  'domestic incidents' to get the police out.  Then whilst the coppers were trying to break it up the couple's children, all trainee car thieves, would practice their dark arts on the cop car.

After a few such incidents the law always sent two cars, one just to watch over the other,  or three coppers of which one would stay with the car.

A further legend says that until the coppers had their own 'vehicle entry specialist' they would call upon an elderly 'retired' member of the same family to 'effect an entry' on any suspicious or abandoned and locked vehicles.

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And the new word is...?

Missing...  So let it be...

MISSING

However large a target they presented him with, Oswald Hood was perfectly capable of missing it, to the eternal embarrassment of his father Robin.

OUTLAW

Maid Marian loved her outlaw bad boy, but what she loved even more was all the crap he would buy her which led her to the position that she was now a target, having gained too much wealth.


REVERSAL

A reversal of fortune is when you discover that the only reliable way to make a million out of backing horses is to start off with two million.

GRANDSTAND

On the Titanic, as the lovely ladies would approach the Grand Staircase, they wished to show off their glamorous (and expensive) gowns to all the plebeians as well as all the other snooty ladies. Therefore, they would pause for some time at the top of the staircase and pose for a bit with a Grand Stand before making their Grand Entrance.


MILLIONAIRES

There's a confection called Millionaire's Toffee, which is soft enough that it doesn't pull gold fillings out.

FILLING